Technical Leadership Contract Job Trends in the North West

Technical Leadership
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Technical Leadership skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 79 102
Rank change year-on-year +1 +23 +40
Contract jobs citing Technical Leadership 67 44 35
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.68% 2.05% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.36% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 15 24
10th Percentile £437 £505 £481
25th Percentile £514 £563 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +0.85% -0.84%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £670
90th Percentile £678 £703 £674
England median daily rate £600 £600 £610
% change year-on-year - -1.64% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £33.61 -
25th Percentile - £38.43 -
Median hourly rate - £47.70 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - +169.19% -62.69%
75th Percentile - £58.23 £34.61
90th Percentile - £63.79 £44.74
England median hourly rate £72.58 £35.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year +107.37% +84.89% -69.95%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Technical Leadership falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,207 1,867 2,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.21% 86.84% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,057 1,608
10th Percentile £213 £263 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £571 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 98 159
10th Percentile £16.58 £16.00 £15.95
25th Percentile £21.19 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.20 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.17% -19.47% +45.29%
75th Percentile £56.69 £49.80 £46.89
90th Percentile £69.94 £70.89 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Technical Leadership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Leadership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Technical Leadership job vacancy trend in the North West

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Leadership in the North West over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Leadership in the North West

Technical Leadership
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Technical Leadership

Technical Leadership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Leadership within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +14 42 £581 -12.30% 132
Cumbria - 10 £590 -
Cheshire -26 7 £443 -30.59% 51
Merseyside -11 4 £663 +32.43% 21
Lancashire -11 2 £300 -42.86% 27
Technical Leadership
England

Technical Leadership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.49%) Apache
1 1 (1.49%) IIS
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.49%) SharePoint 2013
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.49%) PeopleSoft HCM
1 1 (1.49%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) AWS
2 15 (22.39%) Azure
3 12 (17.91%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (8.96%) Serverless
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (7.46%) SaaS
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (5.97%) Apigee
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (5.97%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (5.97%) Datadog
6 4 (5.97%) GitHub
6 4 (5.97%) Loggly
6 4 (5.97%) PaaS
6 4 (5.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.43%) SAN
2 4 (5.97%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (5.97%) Firewall
2 4 (5.97%) MPLS
2 4 (5.97%) WAN
3 3 (4.48%) SD-WAN
3 3 (4.48%) VPN
4 2 (2.99%) 802.11
4 2 (2.99%) BGP
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.99%) EIGRP
4 2 (2.99%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (2.99%) Internet
4 2 (2.99%) IPsec
4 2 (2.99%) LAN
4 2 (2.99%) OSPF
4 2 (2.99%) VLAN
4 2 (2.99%) VXLAN
4 2 (2.99%) Wireless
5 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) BigQuery
1 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.46%) MySQL
2 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.97%) RDBMS
3 4 (5.97%) Redis
3 4 (5.97%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.99%) Big Data
4 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.99%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) Looker
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.49%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Git
2 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.97%) Gradle
3 4 (5.97%) Maven
3 4 (5.97%) SonarLint
3 4 (5.97%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.49%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) gulp
4 1 (1.49%) Yeoman
General
1 22 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Banking
4 2 (2.99%) Finance
5 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Military
5 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (62.69%) Architect
2 18 (26.87%) Technical Architect
3 17 (25.37%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (19.40%) Lead
5 9 (13.43%) SailPoint Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Java Architect
6 7 (10.45%) Java Technical Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Senior
8 3 (4.48%) Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Data Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Lead Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Python Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Python Software Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) SAN Technical Architect
9 2 (2.99%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) SailPoint
2 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
3 5 (7.46%) Dropwizard
3 5 (7.46%) J2EE
3 5 (7.46%) Micronaut
3 5 (7.46%) RESTful
4 4 (5.97%) Celery
4 4 (5.97%) JWT
4 4 (5.97%) Kafka
4 4 (5.97%) React
5 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.48%) Spring
5 3 (4.48%) Web Services
6 2 (2.99%) 802.1X
6 2 (2.99%) Playwright
6 2 (2.99%) pytest
6 2 (2.99%) REST
7 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.49%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.43%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.46%) N-Tier
3 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.99%) Clustering
5 2 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) e-Learning
5 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.49%) PKI
6 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Linux
1 2 (2.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.87%) Agile
2 15 (22.39%) Mentoring
3 14 (20.90%) CI/CD
3 14 (20.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (19.40%) Microservices
5 12 (17.91%) Containerisation
5 12 (17.91%) Roadmaps
6 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (14.93%) Design Patterns
7 10 (14.93%) DevOps
8 9 (13.43%) Architectural Design
8 9 (13.43%) TOGAF
9 8 (11.94%) Application Virtualisation
9 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (11.94%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.45%) API Design
10 7 (10.45%) Due Diligence
10 7 (10.45%) IT Strategy
10 7 (10.45%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) Java
1 13 (19.40%) Python
2 4 (5.97%) Ruby
3 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.48%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.99%) Degree
5 2 (2.99%) IBM Certification
5 2 (2.99%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.49%) CCIE
6 1 (1.49%) CCNP
6 1 (1.49%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.49%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) GIAC
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.99%) SLA
2 1 (1.49%) GDPR
2 1 (1.49%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.49%) NIST
2 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.49%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) SOC 1
System Software
1 7 (10.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (17.91%) Terraform
2 7 (10.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.48%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) SCCM
5 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (10.45%) Google
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) Cisco
3 4 (5.97%) Gigya
4 3 (4.48%) Capita
5 2 (2.99%) IBM
5 2 (2.99%) Meraki
5 2 (2.99%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.49%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.49%) McAfee
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.49%) SAP